The parade...

By Vichara

Again the day breaks and awakens from whatever part of the globe you live in, today’s parade of events. At any given time there are millions of parades, some trumpeting quietly, some acknowledging themselves with the no so subtlety of clanging metal of tanks and bullets. We will all participate in one or more of these parades in a day and join others in celebration and communication of the unfolding events. We are at times drawn into a parade somewhat unwillingly but once we are there we do all have a choice; to follow along with that parade or guide that parade with others in a new direction based in Love, Compassion and Patience.

cupidity • \kyoo-PID-uh-tee\ • noun
1 : inordinate desire for wealth : avarice, greed

2 : strong desire : lust
Example Sentence:
"This time, developing-world economies far from the pinstriped epicentres of mass cupidity are suffering massive collateral damage as the global downturn cuts heavily into demand for their agricultural and resource commodities." (David Olive, The Toronto Star, March 29, 2009)

Did you know?
From its verb "cupere" ("to desire") Latin derived three nouns which have passed with minimal modification into English. "Cupiditas" meant "yearning" and "desire"; English borrowed this as "cupidity," which originally in the 15th century was synonymous with "lust." (The "greed" meaning of "cupidity" developed very soon after this other now-archaic meaning.) Latin "cupido" started out as a near synonym of "cupiditas," but it came to stand for the personification of specifically carnal desire, the counterpart of Greek "eros"; this is the source of our familiar (and rather domesticated) Cupid. A strengthened form of "cupere" -- "concupiscere," meaning "to desire ardently" -- yielded the noun "concupiscentia" in the Late Latin of the Christian church. "Concupiscentia" came specially to denote sexual desire, a meaning reflected in the English version "concupiscence," meaning "sexual desire."